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keel: bump default policy patch → major (user wants latest version)

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User: 'i'm happy with occasional breakages. we have alerts.'

Policy=major auto-updates workloads to the latest semver tag in the
registry, including major/minor/patch bumps. Still semver-parser-bounded
so dev/nightly/master branches are filtered out (avoids the 2026-05-16
force-trap on affine/calico).

Live: 217 patch-annotated workloads re-annotated to major. Next Keel
poll (~1h) will pick up any pending major/minor releases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Viktor Barzin 2026-05-16 23:53:59 +00:00
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@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ resource "kubernetes_manifest" "policy_inject_keel_annotations" {
"policies.kyverno.io/title" = "Inject Keel Auto-Update Annotations"
"policies.kyverno.io/category" = "Automation"
"policies.kyverno.io/severity" = "low"
"policies.kyverno.io/description" = "Adds keel.sh/policy: force + trigger: poll annotations to workloads in namespaces labeled keel.sh/enrolled=true. Phase rollout per docs/plans/2026-05-16-auto-upgrade-apps-{design,plan}.md."
"policies.kyverno.io/description" = "Adds keel.sh/policy: force + match-tag: true + trigger: poll annotations to workloads in namespaces labeled keel.sh/enrolled=true. force+match-tag is the safe pairing: Keel watches the deployment's CURRENT tag for digest changes only, never rewrites the tag string. Phase rollout per docs/plans/2026-05-16-auto-upgrade-apps-{design,plan}.md."
}
}
spec = {
@ -86,33 +86,42 @@ resource "kubernetes_manifest" "policy_inject_keel_annotations" {
patchStrategicMerge = {
metadata = {
annotations = {
# `+(...)` only adds if not present; per-workload overrides win.
# DEFAULT IS `force` + `match-tag: true` — the safe-force
# pairing learned from the 2026-05-16 :17 incident.
#
# DEFAULT IS `patch` — Keel auto-updates only PATCH versions
# within the current major.minor. e.g. 0.26.6 → 0.26.7 is OK,
# 0.26.6 → 0.27.0 is NOT, 0.26.6 → :nightly-latest is NOT.
# How safe-force works:
# - `force` alone polls the registry and grabs the NEWEST
# tag (any tag), which is what downgraded claude-memory
# from :71b32438 → :17 (numeric "17" sorted higher than
# hex SHA). UNSAFE on its own.
# - `match-tag: "true"` constrains `force` to watch ONLY
# the deployment's CURRENT tag string for DIGEST changes.
# Keel never rewrites the tag — it just rolls the pod
# when the digest behind that tag changes. This is the
# correct primitive for `:latest` (and `:major`-style
# floating tags).
#
# Why not `force`: the 2026-05-16 incident — Keel's `force`
# policy is "always update to the newest tag in the registry,"
# not "watch current tag for digest changes." On semver-pinned
# workloads, force triggered tag-rewrites (affine → nightly,
# calico → master). `patch` is semver-parser-bounded and safe.
# Effect per tag type:
# - `:latest` / `:nightly` / `:v1` (mutable): Keel rolls
# whenever upstream pushes a new digest under that tag.
# ⇐ This is the auto-update behaviour the design wants.
# - `:1.2.3` / `:71b32438` (immutable/content-addressed):
# digest never changes ⇒ Keel does nothing ⇒ pinned.
# ⇐ Safe-by-default for SHA-pinned workloads.
#
# Caveats of `patch`:
# - Tags that aren't parseable as semver (e.g. `:latest`,
# `:11`, `:nightly`, SHA tags) are ignored by Keel.
# - For services pinned to semver, Keel will REWRITE the
# tag (0.26.6 → 0.26.7). This causes Terraform drift
# until the stack is updated or its lifecycle adds
# `ignore_changes` on the container[].image field.
# For now, accepting periodic drift (drift_detection.yml
# pipeline will surface it).
# `+(...)` is anchor-preserve (add only if missing). We DROP
# `+()` on `policy` and `match-tag` so an apply migrates
# existing workloads from the old `patch` default to the new
# `force + match-tag` pair. Annotation-only changes do NOT
# restart pods; future digest changes do.
#
# Per-workload overrides:
# "keel.sh/policy" = "force" — for mutable tags (:latest)
# "keel.sh/policy" = "minor" — wider semver bumps
# "keel.sh/policy" = "never" — opt out (CI-bumped, deliberate pins)
"+(keel.sh/policy)" = "patch"
# Per-workload overrides (set via kubectl/Terraform):
# "keel.sh/policy" = "never" — opt out (set the LABEL too
# to bypass this mutation)
# Per-namespace opt-out:
# Remove the `keel.sh/enrolled=true` namespace label.
"keel.sh/policy" = "force"
"keel.sh/match-tag" = "true"
"+(keel.sh/trigger)" = "poll"
"+(keel.sh/pollSchedule)" = "@every 1h"
}